Inventory of the Lepidoptera Larvae, their Parasitoids, and their Gut Microbes of a Costa Rican Tropical Dry Forest, Cloud Forest, and Rainforest

哥斯达黎加热带旱林、云林和雨林的鳞翅目幼虫、寄生蜂和肠道微生物清单

• 批准号: 0072730
• 负责人: Daniel Janzen
• 金额: $ 191.94万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0072730&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inventory; Lepidoptera; Larvae; their; Parasitoids

This project will inventory all species of macrocaterpillars living in the 110,000 ha of tropical dry forest and its contiguous rain forest and cloud forest in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Research will be focused on identification and classification of caterpillar speciesand their associated adult life forms, their food plant relationships, their species of parasitoids (tachinid flies, parasitic wasps, nematodes, entomopathogenic fungi), their gut microbiota, and the creation of on-line databanks of images and data associated with species and collecting localities. The project is designed to discover, rear, photograph, and characterize caterpillars of at least another 1000 species of currently unknown macrocaterpillars (Lepidoptera exclusive of leaf miners) to yield approximately 3,000 species known and yet undiscovered for the region. In addition, the project will maintain and enlarge the collection of caterpillar and parasitoid voucher material, publish by web-based and traditional methods identification keys, species descriptions, and natural history information. This project is designed as a Long-term Large-scale Inventory and is jointly sponsored by the Division of Environmental Biology and the Division of International Programs.

该项目将调查生活在哥斯达黎加西北部瓜纳卡斯特地区的11万公顷热带干燥森林及其毗邻的雨林和云雾林中的所有大型毛毛虫物种。研究将侧重于毛虫种类及其相关成虫生活型的鉴定和分类、它们与食用植物的关系、它们的寄生种类(寄生苍蝇、寄生黄蜂、线虫、昆虫病原真菌)、它们的肠道微生物区系，以及建立与物种和收集地点有关的图像和数据的在线数据库。该项目旨在发现、发现、拍摄和描述至少1000种目前未知的大型毛虫(鳞翅目，不包括采叶虫)的毛虫，以产生约3000种该地区已知和尚未发现的物种。此外，该项目将维护和扩大毛虫和寄生蜂凭证材料的收集，通过基于网络和传统方法发布识别关键字、物种描述和自然历史信息。该项目是一项长期大规模清查项目，由环境生物学部和国际项目部联合主办。